The announcement of the Google Wave platform and all the early descriptions of the role it could play in building Web based applications has me thinking about the power of platforms in general. I think an important concept for us all to think about is the trend we are seeing [...]
While we normally try to offer a position or provide you with a technology path, I wanted to bring some technology news to your attention with a quick post. I feel that these items are important in and of themselves, so I wanted to give you this quick rundown. Security [...]
Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone. There were lots of replies to her about the benefits of Apple's Time Capsule [...]
We hear about the 'Cloud' at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways. The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and more; but their ideas are closer than they would like [...]
One thing that easy to forget is that we actually have the next version of the Internet in operation at the moment. It is called the Internet2, and is a very clear picture as to where the commodity Internet we all use will go. If you are not aware of the [...]
More year end wrap up... There is a quiet revolution happening with how we use software and it will soon drive massive changes in the technology world, and our ways of operating and that is the change from locally based applications that run off our computers hard drive, to Web [...]